Happy Mind: Meditations from the Ancient World to Modernity
450 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 59 ratingsAncient meditation techniques from wisdom teachers who are lost in the mists of time are made available to you in accessible, bite-sized or longer guided meditations. Each episode is largely inspired by the original teachings of Taoist, Buddhist and Hindu masters like Lao Tzu, Buddha and "Krishna", Christian masters like Mary Magdalene, Jesus and Teresa of Avila, Greek masters like Plotinus, Plato and Pythagoras, Islamic masters like Rumi, Ibn Arabi, Attar, and Hafez, and pre-historic masters from Polynesia, Australia and the Americas. From Buddhism to Taoism, from Astrology to Platonism, from Medieval Alchemists to Central Asian poets of yore, (and more), this podcast provides an easy way to access the simple meditation and happy life practices developed by the wisest masters to have graced this planet. Zebediah Rice guides you in an easy and free way to learn to meditate, become more mindful, energetic, happy, peaceful, and mentally sharp. Just sit back, relax, and let me do the work for you.
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Grounding - Use Energy (10 min)
September 02, 2018 03:51 - 10 minutes - 9.16 MBSpace is permeated with fields of energy. Migratory birds navigate using this energy. Bees can feel changes in the electromagnetic field from flowers. And the ancient masters taught that there was another kind energy, or Qi, that humans can awaken to. We can use this energy in all sorts of ways. Today, we use it to ground our bodies and connect with where we are. This is a 10 minute version of the Grounding - Use Energy guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...
Grounding - Use the ground (60 min)
August 30, 2018 08:34 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBThis simple meditation will help ground you when the inevitable chaos and confusion in the world and people around you becomes too much. You might be someone that has a long commute each day. Perhaps you're jet lagged. Or maybe you have recently traveled in the same time zone or moved house or changed jobs. Or maybe there is something more serious going on and panic attacks or anger are frequently threatening to overwhelm you. If so, there are many places you can go for help. One of them is ...
Grounding - Use the ground (45 min)
August 29, 2018 08:22 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBDo you have a long commute each day? Have you recently traveled? Moved house or changed cities? Perhaps you're jet lagged. Or maybe there is something more serious going on and panic attacks or anger are frequently threatening to overwhelm you. If so, there are many places you can go for help. One of them is within your own mind. This simple meditation will help ground you when the inevitable chaos and confusion in the world and people around you becomes too much. This is a 45 minute version...
Grounding - Use the ground (30 min)
August 28, 2018 01:16 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBIf you travel a lot, you can use this meditation as a way to help your jet lagged body overcome the lag and will help accelerate your adaptation to the new time zone. You can even begin working on shifting your body's clock before you leave! The meditation will also help if you are suffering from jet-lag or are feeling unmoored for whatever reason. Even conditions like insomnia, panic attacks, depression, anger and other psychological episodes can be helped with this simple exercise. Or you c...
Grounding - Use the ground (20 min)
August 27, 2018 06:34 - 20 minutes - 18.3 MBMany people in modern times suffer from anxiety, fear, anger, sometimes even outright panic in a way that is disproportionate to the actual threats to their life. It is in those moments that grounding yourself can be a true blessing. This guided meditation walks you through simple meditation to do just that. You will also find that it is a salve to the jet lagged body and will help accelerate your adaptation to the new time zone. You can even begin working on shifting your body's clock before...
Grounding - Use the ground (10 min)
August 26, 2018 05:52 - 10 minutes - 9.16 MBIf you are suffering from jet-lag or are feeling unmoored for whatever reason, this meditation will help. Even conditions like insomnia, panic attacks, depression, anger and other psychological episodes can be helped with this simple exercise. Or you can use it as an everyday tonic to sooth your mind and body, slowing you down from the fast pace of modern life. You will also find that it is a salve to the jet lagged body and will help accelerate your adaptation to the new time zone. You can e...
Grounding - Use your location (30 min)
August 21, 2018 00:08 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBFeeling jet lagged, scattered, discombobulated or unmoored? If so, you can use this meditation to help ground you. By consolidating your energies and harmonizing yourself internally and externally, you will feel better and find that you have the strength and positivity to handle what life brings you. It is a 30 minute version of the Use Your Location to ground yourself meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Grounding - Use your location (20 min)
August 19, 2018 22:33 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MBIf you are feeling jet lagged, scattered, discombobulated or unmoored for whatever reason, this meditation will help ground you. By consolidating your energies and harmonizing yourself internally and externally, you will feel better and find that you have the strength and positivity to handle what life brings you. It is a 10 minute version of the Use Your Location to ground yourself meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Grounding - Use your location (10 min)
August 19, 2018 07:05 - 10 minutes - 9.78 MBWhen our mind and our body is out of joint and we’re not sure why, sometimes a simple meditation on grounding oneself in the place where we are right now is all that is needed to feel better. By consolidating our energies and harmonizing ourselves internally and externally, we find that we have the strength and positivity to handle what life brings us. This is a simple meditation that will allow you ground yourself where you are (or where you will soon be if you are traveling). This meditatio...
Tonglen - The Complete Set (1 hr)
August 06, 2018 05:46 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBUsing your breath as the anchor and the dualistic nature of the phenomenal or physical world as your medium. You can use this guided meditation to release suffering of any kind. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tonglen for Others (1 hr)
August 01, 2018 23:58 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBTonglen works almost like they that jet black coal is consumed in a white hot furnace and transformed into light. You can think of the practice as though the universe is using you as a forge. By accepting the negativity or anguish or others you are purified and your true loving nature is revealed. Contrary to what you might think, your willingness to accept another's suffering allows you to become the smithy for the creation of joy and light, both for them and within yourself as well. This is...
Tonglen for Others (45 min)
July 31, 2018 23:53 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MBTonglen, the Buddhist meditation practice of 'sending and receiving' works in an almost alchemical way to relieve the suffering of others and your personal pain at the same time. The practice of Tonglen fires up a boiler or a smithy within the soul and then guides you to shovel the jet black coal of suffering into the white hot flames in the furnace. Through the practice, the universe uses you as a forge. As paradoxical as it sounds, by accepting the negativity or anguish or others you are pu...
Tonglen for Others (30 min)
July 30, 2018 17:59 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBMany of us suffer terribly. Whether it is physical or psychological pain, the suffering deep down within us can be unbearable. And we often know others who struggle with their own demons. There is a still surface above the darkness that is safe and light and hopeful and endlessly renewed. Tonglen is a simple practice that allows you to connect with that safety and light and hope. Using the alchemy of light and dark, you can use this practice to connect with the suffering of others and through...
Tonglen for Others (20 min)
July 30, 2018 01:11 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBIn Tibetan ‘tong’ can be translated as ‘letting go’ or ‘sending out’ and ‘len’ can mean ‘receiving’ or ‘accepting’. This ancient Buddhist technique is designed to help you relieve suffering or anguish. The method is to just follow a simple, basic rhythm of thought, breath and emotional patterning and the suffering within ourselves ceases, or at least reduces, and almost magically, we help alleviate the suffering in others at the same time. It is one of the oldest, and very best, brain hacks o...
Tonglen for Others (10 min)
July 29, 2018 06:24 - 10 minutes - 9.23 MBThe age-old Buddhist practice of Tonglen can be used to help another person or people who are in pain. If there is someone who is suffering, or some group of people, and you would like to help and support them with your love, you can use this technique to do just that. Tonglen means giving and receiving and in this meditation you will do just that, receiving their suffering and giving your love. Note: This is a 10 minute version of the Tonglen for Others guided meditation. Hosted on Acast...
Past Regret Tonglen (1 hr)
July 25, 2018 23:28 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBTonglen is a method of using a loving and fearless presence to bear witness to the memories or negative emotions that haunt you. Through the almost other-worldly alchemy of compassion you can cleanse yourself of this past. This doesn’t mean that the deep well of grief and fear and anguish is gone or ignored. To the contrary, Tonglen allows you to integrate it into your complete self. There is a still surface above the darkness that is safe and light and hopeful and endlessly renewed. Tonglen...
Past Regret Tonglen (45 min)
July 24, 2018 22:49 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBThere is hardly a person that doesn't have emotional wounds from the past. Tonglen is a method that can be used to heal them. If you can open your heart to your pain and your past, you can become the vehicle for your own healing. Tonglen is a method of using a loving and fearless presence to bear witness to the memories or negative emotions that haunt you. Through the almost other-worldly alchemy of compassion you can cleanse yourself of this past. This doesn’t mean that the deep well of gri...
Past Regret Tonglen (30 min)
July 23, 2018 21:42 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBTonglen is a method that can be used to heal old emotional wounds. If you can open your heart to your pain and your past, you can become the vehicle for your own healing. Tonglen is a method of using a loving and fearless presence to bear witness to the memories or negative emotions that haunt you. Through the almost other-worldly alchemy of compassion you can cleanse yourself of this past. This doesn’t mean that the deep well of grief and fear and anguish is gone or ignored. To the contrary...
Past Regret Tonglen (20 min)
July 23, 2018 01:17 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBEveryone has regrets. Sometimes you are the wrongdoer, sometimes you are the victim. Sometimes it is a little of both. Regardless, by bringing an open heart to your pain and your past, you become the vehicle for your own healing. Tonglen is a method of using a loving and fearless presence to bear witness to the memories or negative emotions that haunt you. Through the almost other-worldly alchemy of compassion you can cleanse yourself of this past. This doesn’t mean that the deep well of gri...
Past Regret Tonglen (10 min)
July 22, 2018 07:46 - 10 minutes - 9.52 MBBy bringing an open heart to your pain and your past, you become the vehicle for your own healing. Tonglen is a method of using a loving and fearless presence to bear witness to the memories or negative emotions that haunt you. Through the almost other-worldly alchemy of compassion you can cleanse yourself of this past. This doesn’t mean that the deep well of grief and fear and anguish is gone or ignored. To the contrary, Tonglen allows you to integrate it into your complete and healed self....
Self-Tonglen (1 hr)
July 20, 2018 08:27 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MB'Tonglen' was developed over hundreds and possibly thousands of years to help heal the most painful and disturbing parts of our selves and our past. It continues to be widely practiced today across the world for the simple reason that it works. The methodology has stood the test of time for this reason. Each of us has a history of injury or anguish or suffering and there are practices that can heal that pain. Your suffering may be more or less fresh, more or less chronic, but everyone wages a...
Self-Tonglen (45 min)
July 18, 2018 19:27 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBThe Tibetan technique called 'Tonglen' was honed over hundreds and possibly thousands of years to heal the most painful and disturbing parts of our selves and our past. It continues to be widely practiced today across the world for the simple reason that it works. The methodology has stood the test of time for this reason. Each of us has a history of injury or anguish or suffering and there are practices that can heal that pain. Your suffering may be more or less fresh, more or less chronic, ...
Self-Tonglen (30 min)
July 17, 2018 09:43 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBIn this meditation we will utilize the ancient Buddhist practice called Tonglen. In Tibetan ‘tong’ can be translated as ‘letting go’ or ‘sending out’ and ‘len’ can mean ‘receiving’ or ‘accepting’. It is designed to help you relieve suffering or anguish. You might have been a small child long ago when the emotional wounds were inflicted. But you can embody that little you in your mind and utilize this technique to comfort and heal this child within. One of the advantages of this practice is th...
Self-Tonglen (20 min)
July 16, 2018 18:24 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MBThis guided meditation is based on the ancient Buddhist practice called Tonglen. In Tibetan ‘tong’ can be translated as ‘letting go’ or ‘sending out’ and ‘len’ can mean ‘receiving’ or ‘accepting’. It is designed to help you relieve suffering or anguish. You might have been a small child long ago when the emotional wounds were inflicted. But you can embody that little you in your mind and utilize this technique to comfort and heal this child within. One of the advantages of this practice is t...
Self-Tonglen (10 min)
July 15, 2018 17:06 - 10 minutes - 9.96 MBTonglen is an ancient Buddhist practice developed to relieve suffering or anguish. In Tibetan ‘tong’ can be translated as ‘letting go’ or ‘sending out’ and ‘len’ can mean ‘receiving’ or ‘accepting’. One of the advantages of this practice is that we don't have to work out what our problems are. We don't have to engage in months or years of therapy, we don't have to follow a guru or join a group. We just follow a simple, basic rhythm of thought, breath and emotional patterning and the suffering...
Tonglen - The Ancient Buddhist Way of Releasing Suffering (1 hr)
June 28, 2018 07:10 - 1 hour - 55 MBIn a surprising reversal of the normal logic of avoiding suffering and seeking pleasure, the ancient Tonglen practice uses the exact opposite logic to achieve an even better outcome. Pleasure, like pain, is fleeting. But true peace, uncapped spaciousness and profound compassion are sustainable sensibilities that are unlocked through this paradoxical technique. The word ‘Tonglen’ itself is Tibetan for 'giving and taking' (or sending and receiving). It is a practice of being present and open t...
Tonglen - The Ancient Buddhist Way of Releasing Suffering (45 min)
June 27, 2018 07:13 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MBThe word ‘Tonglen’ itself is Tibetan for 'giving and taking' (or sending and receiving). It is a practice of being present and open to your own suffering, being willing to receive and integrate the suffering and pain within yourself. In the simple act of being unflinchingly present for your own anguish, bearing witness to it with an open heart and fearless acceptance of this suffering, you heal yourself, you awaken a bottomless compassion within yourself. By bringing an open hearted presence...
Tonglen - The Ancient Buddhist Way of Releasing Suffering (10 min)
June 26, 2018 00:44 - 10 minutes - 9.72 MBTonglen is an millennia-old Tibetan technique to help you release suffering within yourself (or on behalf of others too). It has survived in more or less the same form through successive generations for many hundreds of years in the Buddhist traditions of Tibet. The word ‘Tonglen’ itself is Tibetan for 'giving and taking' (or sending and receiving). It is a practice of being present and open to your own suffering, being willing to receive and integrate the suffering and pain within yourself....
Tonglen - The Ancient Buddhist Way of Releasing Suffering (20 min)
June 24, 2018 23:19 - 20 minutes - 18.3 MBThe Environment of the Mind can be transformed using this millennia-old Buddhist Tonglen technique. The word ‘Tonglen’ itself is Tibetan for 'giving and taking' (or sending and receiving). It is a practice of being present and open to your own suffering, being willing to receive and integrate the suffering and pain within yourself. In the simple act of being unflinchingly present for your own anguish, bearing witness to it with an open heart and fearless acceptance of this suffering, you hea...
Tonglen - The Ancient Buddhist Way of Releasing Suffering (30 min)
June 24, 2018 12:11 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MB'Environment of the Mind' Tonglen is an ancient Buddhist technique to help you release suffering within yourself (or on behalf of others too). It has survived in more or less the same form through successive generations for many hundreds of years in the Buddhist traditions of Tibet. The word ‘Tonglen’ itself is Tibetan for 'giving and taking' (or sending and receiving). It is a practice of being present and open to your own suffering, being willing to receive and integrate the suffering and ...
Let Go And Reconnect With Your Source (45 min)
June 21, 2018 22:32 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBYou aren't who you think you are. It is like you are asleep to the truth of who you really are. That is why they call it 'waking up.' But how do we wake up? An enlightened master once told me that the secret was simple: letting go. Anyone could experience this life of peace and joy and illumination that the great ones speak of just by learning to let go. Letting go. It was that simple. But how do you do that, and why does it work? Well, it works because resistance, holding on, and wanting...
Let Go And Reconnect With Your Source (1 hr)
June 21, 2018 05:29 - 1 hour - 55 MBWhat is enlightenment? And how do we experience it? An enlightened master once told me that their secret was simple: letting go. Anyone could experience this life of peace and joy and illumination that the great ones speak of just by learning to let go. Letting go. It was that simple. But how do you do that, and why does it work? Well, it works because resistance, holding on, and wanting are the source of suffering. They are the mind patterns that sustain the illusion of our separation us...
Let Go And Reconnect With Your Source (10 min)
June 19, 2018 11:08 - 10 minutes - 10 MBWhat is enlightenment? The reports from those who experienced this extraordinary brain-state hold the promise that we can transcend the emotional disturbances that seem to be a given element of being a human. But how do we experience it? An enlightened master once told me that their secret was simple: letting go. Anyone could experience this life of peace and joy and illumination that the great ones speak of just by learning to let go. Letting go. It was that simple. But how do you do that,...
Let Go and Reconnect with your Source (20 min)
June 17, 2018 22:52 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBThere are reports from every culture and every age of certain human beings who somehow seem to be able to transcend the emotional disturbances that seem to be a given element of being a human being. An enlightened master once told me that their secret was simple: letting go. Anyone could experience this life of peace and joy and illumination that the great ones speak of just by learning to let go. Letting go. It was that simple. But how do you do that, and why does it work? Well, it works...
Let Go and Reconnect with your Source (30 min)
June 17, 2018 07:16 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBAn enlightened master once told me that the secret to a life of continual peace and joy was letting go. Anyone could experience the life of peace and love and joy and illumination that the great ones speak of just by learning to let go. Letting go. It was that simple. But how do you do that, and why does it work? It works because resistance, holding on, and wanting are the source of suffering. They are the mind patterns that sustain the illusion of your separation from your true self. So,...
Letting Go Of Who You Think You Are (90 min)
June 12, 2018 23:56 - 1 hour - 82.5 MBThis 90 minute long episode is an adaptation of a lesson taught by George Falcon, an enlightened Qi Gong master who passed away in recent times. It begins with a simple breathing and body scan meditation, transitions to a steady contemplation on the nature of the self and finishes with a sustained meditation on your true I AM. From the earliest wisdom teachers to the great living masters of today, we consistently hear the message that ‘you are free’, ‘you do without doing,’ and ‘you are not ...
Letting Go Of Who You Think You Are (1 hr)
June 12, 2018 04:58 - 1 hour - 55 MBFrom the earliest wisdom teachers to the great living masters of today, we consistently hear the message that ‘you are free’, ‘you do without doing,’ and ‘you are not the self.’ It doesn't matter whether it is Lao Tzu or Krishna, Jesus or Mohammed, Buddha or Hermes Trismegestus, they all share this same insight. But what can they possibly mean? Unfortunately, we have to experience it to understand it. It is impossible to explain in a way the intellect can grasp. Bearing that truth in mind, t...
Letting Go of Who You Think You Are (45 min)
June 11, 2018 05:44 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBCan you experience enlightenment right now? The great masters have told that you already have this enlightened state as your essential nature. You've just forgotten. You're just asleep. But then, who are you, really? Unfortunately, it is impossible to answer this question using words or concepts. So today, instead of giving a lecture on who you really are, I am going to guide you in a way that you might just be able to begin to get a sense of it. This model was taught to me by my teacher Geo...
Let Go of Who You Think You Are (30 min)
June 10, 2018 10:34 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBIn one sense, all our problems in life stem from a confusion about who we really are. Buddha is among the most explicit on this point. He speaks repeatedly about how we are not an ego entity, a personality, a being or and individual. He tells us, for example, in The Diamond Sutra, that we “should leave behind all phenomenal distinctions [such as the idea that we are a self] and awaken the thought of the consummation of incomparable enlightenment”. But what does this mean exactly? And how do ...
Let Go - Be the Witness (2 hrs)
June 09, 2018 00:08 - 2 hours - 110 MBThis is a longer session for those ready to extend their letting go practice. Letting go, remembering who you really are, learning to act in accordance with the truths about free will--these things don't just start happening automatically. You have had a lifetime or learning a different method. All those years and decades of learning have to be overwritten. The brain rewiring just takes time. But we know that neurons that fire together wire together. So you marathon meditators can utilize thi...
Let Go - Be the Witness (1 hr)
June 07, 2018 04:31 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBIt may feel like you are in command of your world and your body but that isn't true. And it isn't just people like Lao Tzu and Krishna that you hear this message from anymore. It is the scientific community. The ancient masters understood that free will is not what we think it is and modern science is finally beginning to catch up. To quote from Sam Harris' book, Free Will, "The physiologist Benjamin Libet famously used EEG to show that activity in the brain’s motor cortex can be detected so...
Let Go - Be the Witness (45 min)
June 05, 2018 00:29 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MBThe ancient masters understood that free will is not what we think it is and modern science is finally beginning to catch up. To quote from Sam Harris' book, Free Will, "The physiologist Benjamin Libet famously used EEG to show that activity in the brain’s motor cortex can be detected some 300 milliseconds before a person feels that he has decided to move. Another lab extended this work using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI): Subjects were asked to press one of two buttons while ...
Let Go - Be The Witness (15 min)
June 03, 2018 20:48 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MB'Less talk, more meditation' version of the 'Be the witness' practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Let Go - Be the Witness (30 min)
June 03, 2018 11:34 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBModern neurological research suggests that our concept of free will is unfounded. The ancient masters understood this long ago. And they developed a series of brain-training exercises to settle in to a state of so-called 'non-doing' or Wu Wei. But non-doing, or just being the witness to the unfolding of your existence, isn't what you think it is. You aren't sitting around doing nothing. Quite the contrary. It's just that the doing that you do do is more organic, appropriate and effortless. ...
Let Go - Be the Object (15 min)
May 22, 2018 04:20 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MB'Letting go' can seem very scary. After all, if we let go, if we stop doing, then what will happen to us? Won't we starve or rot away on our couch? Or won't bad things happen to us? It turns out that letting go and stopping "doing" aren't what we might at first think. It is true that free will as we normally think about it is an illusion. Even though it feels like we are the authors of our existence, the reality is something quite different. Even though we think we perceive reality through o...
Let Go - Be the Object (60 min)
May 20, 2018 23:30 - 1 hour - 55 MBFree will as we normally think about it is an illusion. Even though it feels like we are the authors of our existence, the reality is something quite different. Even though we think we perceive reality through our senses and make judgements about how to behave and what to do with our bodies and our lives, the great masters of old as well as the neuroscientists of our day tell us this is not true. For some, this is quite a scary thought. But the wisdom teachers of ancient times explained that...
Let Go - Be the Object (30 min)
May 20, 2018 06:31 - 29 minutes - 27.5 MBIt feels like we are the authors of our existence. We perceive reality through our senses and make judgements about how to behave and what to do with our bodies and our lives. But the great masters of old as well as the neuroscientists of our day tell us this is not true. Free will as we normally think about it is an illusion. For some, this is quite a scary thought. But the wisdom teachers of ancient times explained that, in fact, the realization of this fact that we are not the subjects of...
Let Go - Be the Vehicle (45 min)
May 15, 2018 10:32 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBOne of the more confusing and seemingly wrong teachings from the ancient masters is this idea that the secret to a happy healthy life is 'non-doing' (Wu Wei). But what in the world can they possibly mean?! How is doing nothing (if that is what they mean) the key to happiness and health? The answer isn’t what you think. You first need to learn what the old sages mean by expressions like “The wise person does nothing, yet nothing is left undone” (Lao Tzu) or “Self, confused by the idea of an ‘...
Let go - Be the Vehicle (60 min)
May 14, 2018 11:15 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBThe great masters have explained in no uncertain terms that we are not the doer. But what in the world can they possibly mean?! How is doing nothing (if that is what they mean) the key to happiness and health? The answer isn’t what you think. You first need to learn what the old sages mean by expressions like “The wise person does nothing, yet nothing is left undone” (Lao Tzu) or “Self, confused by the idea of an ‘I’, thus thinks, ‘I am the doer’" (Krishna). Or, if you prefer, you can look t...
Let Go - Be the Vehicle (15 min)
May 13, 2018 23:00 - 15 minutes - 13.7 MBThe great masters of old were all consistent with at least one piece of advice: the key to happiness and health is to stop doing. Wu Wei ('not doing'), the ancient Chinese masters might have said. Old sages like Lao Tzu in the Tao Te Ching tell us that “The wise person does nothing, yet nothing is left undone” or we can look to Krishna who tells us “Self, confused by the idea of an ‘I’, thus thinks, ‘I am the doer’". Or, if you prefer, you can look to the Islamic mystics of 12thcentury CE (s...